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Here’s what the meme famous ‘errmahgerrd’ girl looks like today (15 photos)

It’s one of the most iconic memes to date: a girl with pigtails and a retainer holding a collection of Goosebumps books, her face twisted in that classic derpy expression.

It all started when 11-year-old Maggie Goldenberger was playing dress up with her friends. She found an ugly vest and threw in her retainer for maximum goofs. The photo was buried on her Myspace page until about 2012, when a complete stranger uploaded the photo to Reddit with the following caption.

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A meme was born. Goldenberger, now a 26-year-old nurse in Phoenix, still comes across the photo when browsing the web.

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“My eyes just get wide and I say, out loud, ‘This is so f*cking weird,’ ” she told Vanity Fair.

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“It was a middle schooler’s perspective of what funny is, so I’m always surprised when adults are such fans,” she said. “It’s essentially making fun of a nerdy girl for being excited about books. . . . So what? I’m always baffled that it still comes up three years later.”

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